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Putenfleisch bei Aldi und Lidl: Bakterien gibt es gratis dazu

Deutsche Umwelthilfe weist hohe Belastung multiresistenter Keime nach. Ähnliche Studie von Greenpeace. Bundesregierung schützt Verbraucher nicht

Mercedes-Benz-CTO Sajjad Khan: “Bei Automotive sind wir besser als Google und Apple”

Der scheidende CTO Sajjad Khan hat die Software-Entwicklung bei Mercedes-Benz deutlich vorangebracht. Im Interview mit Golem.de spricht er über die Herausforderungen beim autonomen Fahren und der Mitarbeitergewinnung. Ein Interview von Friedhelm Greis …

A decade and a half of instability: The history of Google messaging apps

Sixteen years after the launch of Google Talk, Google messaging is still a mess.

Take the Google Messaging quiz! Can you name all the icons?

Google Talk, Google's first-ever instant messaging platform, launched on August 24, 2005. This company has been in the messaging business for 16 years, meaning Google has been making messaging clients for longer than some of its rivals have existed. But thanks to a decade and a half of nearly constant strategy changes, competing product launches, and internal sabotage, you can't say Google has a dominant or even stable instant messaging platform today.

Google's 16 years of messenger wheel-spinning has allowed products from more focused companies to pass it by. Embarrassingly, nearly all of these products are much younger than Google's messaging efforts. Consider competitors like WhatsApp (12 years old), Facebook Messenger (nine years old), iMessage (nine years old), and Slack (eight years old)—Google Talk even had video chat four years before Zoom was a thing.

Currently, you would probably rank Google's offerings behind every other big-tech competitor. A lack of any kind of top-down messaging leadership at Google has led to a decade and a half of messaging purgatory, with Google both unable to leave the space altogether and unable to commit to a single product. While companies like Facebook and Salesforce invest tens of billions of dollars into a lone messaging app, Google seems content only to spin up an innumerable number of under-funded, unstable side projects led by job-hopping project managers. There have been periods when Google briefly produced a good messaging solution, but the constant shutdowns, focus-shifting, and sabotage of established products have stopped Google from carrying much of these user bases—or user goodwill—forward into the present day.

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Kleinstwagen: Der Citroën Ami wird zum Opel Rocks-e

Ursprünglich wollte Citroën den elektrischen Kleinstwagen Ami in Deutschland auf den Markt bringen. Das übernimmt nun aber Opel unter anderem Namen. (Elektroauto, Technologie)

Vodafone: Implementierung von Cell Broadcast “keine simple Sache”

Wenn die technischen Vorgaben der Bundesnetzagentur fertig sind, wird die Implementierung mehrere Monate dauern. Missbrauch von Cell Broadcast durch Hacker soll verhindert werden. (Hochwasser, Mobilfunk)

Medizin: Sicherheitslücken in Infusionspumpen entdeckt

Medizinische Infusionspumpen versorgen Patienten mit Medikamenten. Können Angreifer unbemerkt die Dosis manipulieren, kann das schwere Folgen haben. (Medizin, McAfee)

Usenet Indexer NZBXS.com Shares User Details With Anti-Piracy Group and Shuts Down

Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN has claimed another victory on the piracy front. Usenet indexing site NZBXS.com agreed to shut down voluntarily but, as part of a confidential settlement, BREIN also received personal details of the site’s API users, who can expect to receive a message from the anti-piracy group in the near future.

From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

stop danger Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN has targeted pirates of all shapes and sizes over the past two decades.

It’s also one of the few groups that systematically tracks copyright infringers on Usenet, one of the oldest file-sharing systems which still has millions of users.

BREIN has a long track record of going after Usenet indexing sites. These portals don’t host any infringing material on their servers but, much like torrent sites, they offer NZB files or ‘spots’ that make infringing material easy to find on Usenet.

NZBXS ‘Hobby Project’ Shuts Down

This week the anti-piracy group reports another victory in this battle. BREIN tracked down the operator or NZBXS.com who agreed to settle the matter out of court and shut down the website.

NZBXS.com was a small site with ‘just’ a few thousand visitors per month. The site’s operator said that the site was merely a hobby project. However, BREIN stresses that such hobbies can be problematic.

“It was supposed to be a hobby project, but with thousands of visitors per month, there is still considerable damage. As a judge previously ruled: an illegal hobby is also illegal,” BREIN notes.

NZBXS in better times

This type of enforcement action is nothing new for BREIN. The organization, which represents rightsholders for various industries, is the driving force behind hundreds of shutdowns every year. That said, this one comes with a surprise for the site’s users as well.

BREIN Has User Details

As part of the settlement, the operator of NZBXS.com agreed to share information about the site’s users.

The site allowed users to register an account so they could access the API, which hooked into external media downloading tools and PVRs such as Sickbeard, RADARR, and CouchPotato. These users can expect to receive a message from BREIN.

“We will send a message to the few hundred members that had an API key,” BREIN director Tim Kuik says.

Kuik didn’t share any details on what this message will look like, as it may differ depending on the evidence. However, NZBXS users can – at a minimum – expect a warning their records will also remain on file for a year, to check if they continue any illegal activities.

At the time of writing the NZBXS.com website is indeed offline. There’s no official shutdown notice. Instead, the domain shows a Cloudflare error, indicating that the server is unreachable.